Oliphant's concerns
over peak production echoed similar comments at the conference, being held this year in Colorado Springs.
Not exact matches
By 2023, when Hewson expects to hit to
peak production, Lockheed aims to hand
over 160 strike fighters per year.
Oil prices must inevitably rise as unconventional
production peaks over the next decade and oil - exporting countries increasingly consume more of their own oil.
Growth in industrial
production has slowed gradually but remains strong;
production expanded by 14.4 per cent
over the year to December, down from a
peak of 19.4 per cent in March.
Total coal
production in the United States is varied
over time, oscillating
over the decades, up and down, except anthracite, which
peaked around 1920.
(3)
Over the next few years our public understanding of «
peak energy
production» will continue to grow.
Publication date: 2007-12-01 First Published in Energy Policy Authors: R. Bentley et al Abstract: Combining geological knowledge with proved plus probable («2P») oil discovery data indicates that
over 60 countries are now past their resource - limited
peak of conventional oil
production.
Notably,
production over the lifetime of a fuel source was not assumed to be symmetrical about a
peak value like that depicted by a Hubbert curve.
From the article:... Wind and solar are about to become unstoppable, natural gas and oil
production are approaching their
peak, and electric cars and batteries for the grid are waiting to take
over.
This is reminiscent of the criticism poured
over Hubbard in the 1970s for his prediction that the U.S. would reach
peak production in 1970.
I would argue that the steps industry is currently taking to mitigate their own carbon footprints, the recent
peak and now downward trajectory of CO2 concentrations in developed nations, increasing global forestation, decreasing paper
production, and global awareness in developing nations towards curbing their carbon footprint is enough in itself to hold us
over until major breakthroughs in technology squash fears entirely.
As I pointed out here, CAGR for CO2 emissions from coal, oil, natural gas, flaring, and cement
production averaged 3.08 % for the period 2000 - 2010,
peaking to 6 % in 2003
over 2002 (though there was no hysteria that time) and again in 2010
over 2009 (much unwarranted hysteria about a single year, even by professionals but perhaps overblown by the media as usual who may have been selective about who they quoted!).